The Osceola times., 1887-07-09
HARRISON B. MccnEARY, aged forty.

HARRISON b. McCREARY, aged forty.
six years, committed suicide at Utica, N.
Y, on the 2sth by cutting his throat with
a razor His wife died about three
months ago since which time he has been
very despondent. and expressed the fear
that he would become insane.
LAFLIS 4 RASD's powder mill, at
Wayne, n J., exploded on the 2sth. In
the drying mill were Charles Tier, aged
forty-iive years, and John Caves, who
were instantly killed. August Krouse
was near the mill and has not been see
since He is undoubtedly killed. Several
others were injured.
JoHS LAIDLow ana DR. Robert N. Mills,
Of Elmira, n ", were arraigned al
Binghamton on tho 2sth before Commls-
sioner II II on charge OF defrauding the
Pension Ofice out of sl3,00l Their tool
was blind man at Elmira They were
com mitted.
A DRUNKEN man named Allen, attacked
Marshal Dougherty, OF Auburn, Neb., on
the 2Sth with knife, the blade penetrat-
ing the top Of the head several inches ana
breaking, from the effects OF which IT is
impossible for him 10 recover. Allen W as
run down, and is reported to be In a crit
| ical condition from rough usage by infuri-
ated citizsns
| OK the Goth earthquake shocks were
felt in Guayaquil. II is feared great dam
age resulted to interior South Anne can
cities.
THE young man who committed suicide
by jumping of ferry boat between
Jersey City and New York on the night
| OF the 2sth, was Walter Terrill, Of very
respectable family OF Baltimore, The
family are almost prost trated by the
news, and his mother, whom he wrongly
accused of having caused the deed, is
heart broken.
AN English sea captain and three sailors
have been sentenced TO death for murder
ing a Malay whllc on voyage from South
Africa. They claimed he was a danger.
Gus fanatic.
TERRIBLE brutality is being shown by
the investigation to have prevailed in the
Wards Island IN W lunatic asylum.
On the 3Oth Charles Rork, the West
Shore express robber, was sentenced at
Utica, N. Y, to twenty years hard labor
in Auburn prison.
TnE New Zealand Hotel, a bank and
twenty-five shop, were recently de
stroyed by fire at Benheim, N. Y. The
loss is si0lO00
On the 3Oth John Smith, a turner by oc-
cupation, committed suicide In the New
York city prison by hanging He was
committed June 26 for burglary. He was
thirty years old.
TnH New York "boodle" aldermen In
Montreal are very much Disconnected
over Sharpe's conviction. They refuse TO
see reporters but their friends say they
feel badly as they consider their stay is
indefinitely prolonged. Moloney, howey-
er, appears as happy as a cricket.
On the 30th a train carrying two thou
sand school children on an excursion on
the Indianapolis Il Vincennes railroad
narrowly escaped destruction. The rotten
timbers OF bridge over White river gave
way beneath the heavy train, and the cars
sunk two feet with a j,rk, when they
we're lucki arrested by some other tim
bers, and a Wholesale slaughter Of the
innocents" averiel.
A DRUNKEN ma1 at Chatham, N. j.,
committed "A horr be wife murder on the
lst aud then su'c ded.
TuE men Was son and Mart n, accused at
Bloomington, H., Of bunco swindling,
have been held in 5000 bail They are
badly wanted at other points.
ALBERT TURNER, murderer Of Jennie
Bowman, was hanged at Louisville, KY,
on the lst and James McElroy at Hender-
son, same State.
Dr.. PARK KIBBIE, who was visiting at
his fathers farm, near Troy Mills, Ia, on
the lst IN an alteration with a farm
hand named johnson, was struck on the
head with q heavy club and his skull
crushed. johnson fiel, but was captured
at Independence
NATURAL gas rising from newly dug
well on the farm Of Mr.. Munson, near
Bloomington, H., caught fire some way
on the night OF the lsi, and number OF
mem bers OF Munson's family were dread
fully burned about the face. One or two
Of them were very dangerously injured.
Such gas wells are very numerous about
Mclean County.